For far too many people, “I don’t really follow the news” has become the survival strategy of our era.
Who can blame them? I follow and subscribe to dozens of Substacks and other news sources and my days off are increasingly spent reading articles and essays by...
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As he embroils the world in a vast and unnecessary international military conflagration, what is stopping Donald Trump from using nuclear weapons?
Not much, it seems; there are no real remaining checks and balances.
He has replaced most of the senior military leadership in his country for peopl...
Canada never properly dealt with Brian Mulroney, even after he admitted to accepting $75,000 in cash from Karlheinz Schreiber while still holding elected office. As unprince Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor joins a growing list of figures facing arrest overseas for various forms of corruption, we need ...
After 64 years of sanctions and blockades against Cuba, the United States are now trying to starve out the entire country’s population in an explicit attempt to force régime change — and Canada cannot sit on the sidelines.
The US is preventing oil from reaching the country which depends on impor...
Canada has published a Defence Industrial Strategy for the first time. The extensive documents released by Ministers McGuinty, Joly, and Fuhr spells out a vision for the country that uncouples us from the Americans… eventually. There is an immense amount of analysis coming out about it, but I wan...
Traditionally, when the portrait of a Prime Minister is hung in Parliament, it is deferred until their political career is firmly finished. It is fitting, given former Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s irreverent legacy, that the hanging of his portrait last week was the occasion through which he r...
École Polytechnique, Dunblane, Columbine, Sandy Hook, and so many others in so many places over so many years, with Tumbler Ridge now joining this infamous list.
School shootings are often seen as a tragedy, as a horrible thing that just happens, with no underl...
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While we listen to former Prime Minister Stephen Harper call on Canadians to “‘make any sacrifice necessary’ to protect Canada’s independence and unity,” we need only remember the letter he published in the Wall Street Journal attacking Jean Chrétien for keeping us out of the US-led war in Iraq.
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One day, the orange popsicle will melt like the Wicked Witch of the West. It will feel like the end, but until the United States completes its reckoning, Canada will need to resist the very Canadian instinct to open our arms and offer forgiveness.
Before the dust settles, much of the country — a...
Pierre Poilievre’s career-defending speech Friday night started with a telling joke, that he loved “seeing so many Conservatives in one place, but it must freak the Liberals out enough to invoke the Emergencies Act.” For the joke to work, the room had to acknowledge that the 2022 Ottawa convoy an...
Nearly all the problems we are facing today share a common root cause: the role of money — and those who have too much of it — in politics.
Canada’s electoral system is money-dependent, giving a natural and disproportionate voice to those who have money to spare. Even at small scales, the maximu...
Canada is facing an existential threat from an unhinged neighbour intent on destroying our sovereignty to plunder our resources. The Alberta separatist movement is not some great defender of either; they are useful idiots to those who threaten our country.
The province’s small but noisy separati...
There is opportunity in this chaos. France and Ukraine ran a sting on the United States that showed the Trump administration was leaking classified data to Russia. We know that NATO, NORAD, and any other military alliance with the United States is no longer worth the paper on which it is printed....
Dear Americans: don’t apologise for your president, do something about him. For the rest of the world, Trump is the United States and the United States is Trump. We see the two as just as interchangeable as you see Russia and Putin.
When an armed group go door-to-door looking for people that look foreign and kidnap, assault, injure, and murder people in cold blood in the streets, all while hiding their faces behind masks, and doing so specifically to intimidate a population for political reasons, we would normally consider t...
The Trump régime wants control of America’s central bank and control of their interest rates, and he is willing to prosecute Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell to get it. Powell, unlike Scotia Bank CEO Scott Thomson, is willing to push back.
According to Powell, the Department of Justice served...
It is said that it is darkest before dawn. Unfortunately for us, it is not yet midnight.
Pablo Rodriguez’s spectacularly short career as Quebec Liberal leader came to an abrupt end without him ever holding a seat in the province’s legislature. With the Phoenix-like rise of the Parti Québecois, it leaves us on the precipice at a most inopportune time.
Premier François Legault has ind...
Yesterday’s illegal and violent annexation of Venezuela should dispel any remaining notion that the United States is a functioning democratic country worthy of any form of respect on the world stage. This was Trump’s Czechoslovakia and Canada is precariously positioned as his Austria.
There are ...
As a wild 2025 comes to a crashing halt, what have we learned? Much of the voting public cares little about corruption, is in large part far more interested in the ill-being of others than in the well-being of themselves, and democracy is far more fickle than my already cynical self had imagined ...
Interchange Canada is a little-known program in which corporations embed employees in the federal government while they stay on their sponsor’s payroll. There is precious little public information about who has participated in this program whose very existence raises serious ethical questions.
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The United States is considering requiring the submission of five years of social media history in order to apply for an Electronic System for Travel Authorization form, a de facto visa that many countries, including Canada, now require. There is no obvious reason to gather the vast quantities o...
I recently came across one of the most ridiculous headlines I have seen in a world full of ridiculous headlines: “Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it’s costing the economy.” It is one of several assertions I have seen recently about consumer behaviour that underlines how ut...
One of the anachronistic and unnecessary requirements of Canadians, Americans, and residents of many other countries at income tax time is the need to file their taxes. The information the government requires is, for the most part, already in the government’s possession. The tax code is excessive...
One of the greatest and most realistic movies about Canadian politics is Guibord s’en va-t-en-guerre, a comedy about an indepedent rural Quebec MP who must cast the deciding vote in a minority parliament over whether the country goes to war. It is a reminder of the relevance and importance of loc...
Communism is a limit on wealth; socialism is a limit on poverty; capitalism is a limit on those limits; democracy is a limit on capitalism; and fascism is a limit on democracy. ...
Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud (MBS) visited the Trump White House last week and went home with a deal to buy American F-35 fighter jets. In Canada, we are reconsidering our plan to do the same, and with good reason. ...
Donald Trump may reach his untimely political end over some of the emasculating relevations still to come in the Epstein files, but the dictatorship he has created is not about to follow suit, and there are serious implications for Canada. ...
Interstellar travellers would have to check on Earth thousands of times to have a hope of dropping by in our era -- and if they arrived today, they probably wouldn't want to stick around. ...
Nova Scotia MP Chris D’Entremont’s floor crossing last week has put the Conservatives into a bit of a tizzy. When the roles were reversed, they were positively gleeful. Unfortunately for them, floor-crossing is a strength, not a weakness, of Canada’s democracy.
One of the most famous floor cross...
